Defense Budget, Policy & Operations Analysis

May 15, 2020
The U.S. military continues to expand the operational envelope of its X-37B robotic spaceplanes amid the COVID-19 crisis.
May 15, 2020
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
May 14, 2020
Counter-hypersonic option reemerges five years after MDA Passed On THAAD-ER Proposal.
May 13, 2020
The lessons of German air raids from 80 years ago are suddenly relevant when the best thing British citizens can do is stay home.
May 12, 2020
Boeing’s latest F/A-18; Japanese military space unit; Hungary missile request OK’d; Indian chief pushes for more “Make in India”

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Sep 28, 2022
U.S. officials outlined 11 capabilities that will be delivered to Kyiv over the next six to 24 months.
Sep 28, 2022
European countries are beefing up security around their oil and gas facilities after the European Union and the Danish and Swedish governments declared the damage caused to both Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea as sabotage.
Sep 28, 2022
Visiting South Korea’s Sacheon Air Base on Sept. 28 to observe a test flight of the first prototype KF-21, senior Indonesian defense officials said the advancement of the aircraft into flight testing was a “tangible manifestation” of the platform’s development.
Sep 27, 2022
All of the fatal civilian casualties caused by U.S. airstrikes in 2021 occurred in the waning days of the war in Afghanistan, according to a new report, as the Pentagon promises a new mitigation plan will further lessen the number of innocents harmed.
Sep 27, 2022
NASA's probe slammed into a targeted asteroid on Sept. 26 to demonstrate a kinetic impact strategy as a potential means of shielding the Earth from a disastrous collision in future.
Sep 26, 2022
UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has said funding pledges by new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss—to raise defense spending to 3% of gross domestic product—will be realized.
Sep 21, 2022
Personnel at the Russian defense conglomerate are working overtime to meet demand. 
Sep 20, 2022
A Swiss campaign group established to derail the country’s procurement of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter by referendum has halted its work.